Privacy Policy
This overall Privacy statement verifies, among other things, that SpeakCorp, Inc. ("we" or "us" or "SpeakCorp") is in compliance with all Privacy principles.We always have and always will respect your privacy. Any information that you give us is held with the utmost care and will not be used other than as described in this privacy policy. SpeakCorp has created this privacy policy to demonstrate our commitment to your privacy. The "SpeakCorp" name and reputation have been built on the trust of our customers, and we hope that our commitment to online privacy will inspire the same trust in you while you are visiting SpeakCorp.
We have adopted a set of information management guidelines that serve as the basis for our customer relationships. These guidelines have been developed with the recognition that Internet technologies are rapidly evolving. Accordingly, guidelines are subject to change. Any such changes will be posted on this page. Please read this privacy policy to understand how your personal information will be treated as you use SpeakCorp. Please see our Terms of Use for more information about our online policies in general. If you have questions or concerns regarding this statement, you should first contact: feedback@SpeakCorp.com. We collect personal information from you on SpeakCorp when you provide it and in some cases, from third party sources such as credit card companies in order to ensure that your credit card information is up-to-date.
User Registration. Registration on SpeakCorp is mutually voluntary. SpeakCorp is not obligated to accept and, or retain a registered user and a registered user is not obligated to remain a registered user, because SpeakCorp is a privately held company. To register on SpeakCorp, you must provide your name, address, e-mail address and year of birth. This information is required in the registration process at SpeakCorp, but we recognize that this is your personal information and, except as we explain below, we do not give it out to third parties without your approval. Becoming a registered user on SpeakCorp allows you to have all the services we offer available to you. Additional demographic information, such as your occupation, level of education, household income and special interests, may be collected in an "optional information" area. In this section, you are not required to provide additional information about yourself that you may find personal. We do this to learn more about you in tailoring our Web site for your needs and preferences. We will periodically change our survey to gather information from our users. This function is optional but we would love your input on how to improve our site.
Subscriptions to SpeakCorp. To subscribe to SpeakCorp, you must provide the personal information requested in the SpeakCorp subscription process, including, without limitation, your name, address, e-mail address, and other information required in order to become a registered user of SpeakCorp, and your credit card information for subscription fee billing. This information is required in the subscription process, but we recognize that this is your personal information and, except as we explain below, we do not give it out to third parties without your approval. Becoming a subscriber of SpeakCorp provides you with the benefits described in the subscriber section of SpeakCorp, including access to certain content that is not available to persons who are not subscribers and a discount for purchases. The Subscriber Agreement applies to your subscription to SpeakCorp. In addition, as a subscriber to SpeakCorp, you will also automatically become a registered user of SpeakCorp, thereby subjecting you to the terms and conditions of this Privacy Policy applicable to registered users, and you will be entitled to all of the benefits and privileges available to registered users of SpeakCorp.
Member Recommendation. In order to submit your recommendation and reviews on the site, you will need to create a username. If you so choose on your personal profile, the following pieces of information will be shared on the site along with your reviews: (i) your username, (ii) your home city and state, ( In addition, you will have the option to add the following additional information to your profile, in which case this information will also be shared on the site: (iii) gender, (iv) subjects you talk about (v) bio. You will have the ability to recommend a speaker.
Credit Card Policy. To simplify membership set-up, if applicable, we request your credit card number, its expiration date and your billing and shipping address. We transmit this information safely over the Internet in encrypted form and store it on a secure server. This information is used only to bill you for and ship to you the SpeakCorp products that you order or to bill you for your subscription to SpeakCorp or other services available on SpeakCorp.
Cookies. SpeakCorp employs cookies (small pieces of text stored on your computer) to recognize you and your access privileges. For example, we use cookies to allow you to log on to SpeakCorp automatically without entering your ID and password each visit. Cookies also identify you and your preferences on our site. You may refuse to accept our cookies, but we will not be able to recognize you as a registered user or subscriber, which will limit your access to the site.
E-mail a Recommendation. If you choose to e-mail a recommendation to a friend, we collect the friend's name and e-mail address. This information is used only to deliver the review to your friend and is not stored on our servers. If "a friend" decides that he/she will register with SpeakCorp, he or she will be given the same rights of access as registered users of SpeakCorp. The prospect information that you submit for "a friend" will be used only for the use for which it is submitted. Additionally, for "a friend" to register, he or she will have to follow SpeakCorp’s registration process (see above) and will be given the same option in regard to receiving marketing materials that SpeakCorp offers to all registered users.
IP Addresses. SpeakCorp logs IP addresses, or the location of your computer on the Internet, for systems administration and troubleshooting purposes. Your IP address is not linked to any personally identifiable information.
Third Party Advertising. In the course of serving advertisements to this site, our third-party advertiser may place or recognize a unique cookie on your browser.
How We Use Your Information. We use your e-mail address and home address to send you updates and newsletters periodically about new features, special offers and targeted promotional items available on SpeakCorp. You may choose to not receive certain of these communications by so indicating during the registration process or in response to one of our e-mails or postal mailings. Each communication will clearly explain how to opt out of future communications. Any demographic information that you voluntarily share with us is used to tailor SpeakCorp to your interests. We also may share this demographic information with other companies with which we do business.
With Whom We Share Information. We share your personally identifiable information with intermediaries. These intermediaries use your information in connection with processing payments for online purchases and with delivery of e-mail and postal mailings to our registered users. We do not permit these intermediaries to use, store or retain this information for secondary purposes, unless they indicate otherwise in communications to you. From time to time we may allow some of our select partners to send you special promotional offers that we believe may be of special interest to you. You may choose not to receive these communications from our partners by so indicating during the registration process or in response to any of these communications, each of which will clearly explain how to opt out of future communications. You may also opt out of having your personal information shared with these third parties by sending a request to have your SpeakCorp user account deactivated to feedback@SpeakCorp.com. If you do so, however, you will not be able to take advantage of many of our features, including the right to vote online, purchase items from our store and even continue as a subscriber to SpeakCorp. We do retain the right to share and transfer all user information with a purchaser of our company or all or substantially all of our assets if that purchaser agrees to abide by the terms of this Policy.
Legal Disclaimer. We may disclose personal information if required to do so by law or in the good faith belief that such action is necessary to conform with the law or legal process or to protect or defend our rights or property.
Security. SpeakCorp has security measures in place to help protect the loss, misuse and alteration of the information under our control. All information is stored in a secure operating environment. When sending sensitive information across the Internet - including your login ID, password and purchasing information such as credit cards - we use Secure Socket Layer (SSL) encryption provided by VeriSign. Internally, all customer information is protected with multiple security checks. Employee access to the system is limited to the functionality necessary for each person's job. Relevant employees are informed of our security policies and their access to applications and data on our network.
If you still do not feel comfortable about leaving your credit card information on our secured Web site, please contact our customer service department at
Special Policy With Regard to Information From Children Under Eighteen. During the SpeakCorp registration process, users are asked to enter their "year of birth." This information is mandatory for registration on SpeakCorp because we do not allow children under the age of eighteen to go through the registration process at SpeakCorp unless authorized by a parent or legal guardian.
Links unless otherwise authorized by a parent or guardian. We may provide links to third party Web sites as a service to our users. Please be aware that we cannot control and are not responsible for the information collection practices of such Web sites, which may differ from those of SpeakCorp. We encourage you to review and understand the privacy policies on these Web sites before providing any information to them.
How You Can Access or Correct Your Information. If you are a registered SpeakCorp user you can make changes to your personal information at any time by clicking on "My Account" on SpeakCorp or by e-mailing us at feedback@SpeakCorp.com. At any time you can also review your personal information by clicking on "My Account" as well.
Questions. Protecting your privacy is one of our highest priorities. If you have any questions about our privacy policy, you may e-mail us at feedback@SpeakCorp.com, or write to us at SpeakCorp, Inc., 235, E. Broadway, Suite 1060, Long Beach, CA, 90802, Attn: Privacy.
Consent and Opting-Out. Upon request, SpeakCorp will:
To request a correction or cancellation, send e-mail to feedback@SpeakCorp.com.
Notification of Changes. If we decide to materially change our privacy policy, we will post changes on this page so that you are always aware of what information we collect, how we use it and under what circumstances we disclose it. Regardless of later updates, we will never use the information you submit under this current policy in a new way without first providing you an opportunity to opt out or otherwise prevent that use (we will post a notification of such changes 30 days prior to their implementation). You may determine when this privacy policy was updated last by noting the "Last Updated" date directly beneath the title of this page.
SpeakCorp Principles
We built SpeakCorp to make it easy to share information with your friends and people around you. We understand you may some details in your profile to remain private; that is why we give you control of your information. Our privacy settings limit the information displayed in your profile to your networks and other reasonable community limitations that we tell you about.
SpeakCorp believes in these two core principles:
- You should have control over your personal information.
SpeakCorp helps you share information with your friends and people around you. You choose what information you put in your profile, including contact and personal information, pictures, interests and groups you join, videos and media. - You should have access to the information others want to share.
There is an increasing amount of information available out there, and you may want to know what relates to you, your friends, and people around you. We want to help you easily get that information.
Sharing information should be easy. And we want to provide you with the privacy tools necessary to control how and with whom you share that information. If you have questions or ideas, please send them to privacy@SpeakCorp.com.
SpeakCorp's Privacy Policy
SpeakCorp's Privacy Policy is designed to help you understand how we collect and use the personal information you decide to share, and help you make informed decisions when using SpeakCorp, located at www.SpeakCorp.com and its directly associated domains (collectively, "SpeakCorp" or "Website")
By using or accessing SpeakCorp, you are accepting the practices described in this Privacy Policy. If you have questions or concerns regarding this statement, you should first contact our privacy staff at privacy@SpeakCorp.com.
The Information We Collect
When you visit SpeakCorp you provide us with two types of information: personal information you knowingly choose to disclose that is collected by us and Web Site use information collected by us as you interact with our Web Site.
When you register with SpeakCorp, you provide us with certain personal information, such as your name, your email address, your telephone number, your address, your gender, schools attended and any other personal or preference information that you provide to us.
When you enter SpeakCorp, we collect your browser type and IP address. This information is gathered for all SpeakCorp visitors. In addition, we store certain information from your browser using "cookies." A cookie is a piece of data stored on the user's computer tied to information about the user. We use session ID cookies to confirm that users are logged in. These cookies terminate once the user closes the browser. By default, we use a persistent cookie that stores your login ID (but not your password) to make it easier for you to login when you come back to SpeakCorp. You can remove or block this cookie using the settings in your browser if you want to disable this convenience feature.
When you use SpeakCorp, you may set up your personal profile, form relationships, send messages, perform searches and queries, form groups, set up events, add applications, and transmit information through various channels. We collect this information so that we can provide you the service and offer personalized features. In most cases, we retain it so that, for instance, you can return to view prior messages you have sent or easily see your friend list. When you update information, we usually keep a backup copy of the prior version for a reasonable period of time to enable reversion to the prior version of that information.
You post User Content (as defined in the SpeakCorp Terms of Use) on the Site at your own risk. Although we allow you to set privacy options that limit access to your pages, please be aware that no security measures are perfect or impenetrable. We cannot control the actions of other Users with whom you may choose to share your pages and information. Therefore, we cannot and do not guarantee that User Content you post on the Site will not be viewed by unauthorized persons. We are not responsible for circumvention of any privacy settings or security measures contained on the Site. You understand and acknowledge that, even after removal, copies of User Content may remain viewable in cached and archived pages or if other Users have copied or stored your User Content.
Any improper collection or misuse of information provided on SpeakCorp is a violation of the SpeakCorp Terms of Service and should be reported to privacy@SpeakCorp.com.
If you choose to use our invitation service to tell a friend about our site, we will ask you for information needed to send the invitation, such as your friend's email address. We will automatically send your friend a one-time email or instant message inviting him or her to visit the site. SpeakCorp stores this information to send this one-time invitation, to register a friend connection if your invitation is accepted, and to track the success of our referral program. Your friend may contact us at info@SpeakCorp.com to request that we remove this information from our database.
SpeakCorp may also collect information about you from other sources, such as newspapers, blogs, instant messaging services, and other users of the SpeakCorp service through the operation of the service (e.g., photo tags) in order to provide you with more useful information and a more personalized experience.
By using SpeakCorp, you are consenting to have your personal data transferred to and processed in the United States.
Use of Information Obtained by SpeakCorp
When you register with SpeakCorp, you create your own profile and privacy settings. Your profile information, as well as your name, email and photo, are displayed to people in the networks specified in your privacy settings to enable you to connect with people on SpeakCorp. We may occasionally use your name and email address to send you notifications regarding new services offered by SpeakCorp that we think you may find valuable.
Profile information is used by SpeakCorp primarily to be presented back to and edited by you when you access the service and to be presented to others permitted to view that information by your privacy settings. In some cases where your privacy settings permit it (e.g., posting to your wall), other SpeakCorp users may be able to supplement your profile.
Profile information you submit to SpeakCorp will be available to users of SpeakCorp who belong to at least one of the networks you allow to access the information through your privacy settings (e.g., school, geography, friends of friends). Your name, network names, and profile picture thumbnail will be available in search results across the SpeakCorp network and those limited pieces of information may be made available to third party search engines. This is primarily so your friends can find you and send a friend request. People who see your name in searches, however, will not be able to access your profile information unless they have a relationship to you (friend, friend of friend, member of your networks, etc.) that allows such access based on your privacy settings.
SpeakCorp may send you service-related announcements from time to time through the general operation of the service. For instance, if a friend sends you a new message or poke, or someone posts on your wall, you may receive an email alerting you to that fact.
Generally, you may opt out of such emails here, though SpeakCorp reserves the right to send you notice about your account even if you opt out of all voluntary email notifications.
SpeakCorp may use information in your profile without identifying you as an individual to third parties. We do this for purposes such as aggregating how many people in a network like a band or movie and personalizing advertisements and promotions so that we can provide you SpeakCorp. We believe this benefits you. You can know more about the world around you and, where there are advertisements, they're more likely to be interesting to you. For example, if you put a favorite movie in your profile, we might serve you an advertisement highlighting a screening of a similar one in your town. But we don't tell the movie company who you are.
We may use information about you that we collect from other sources, including but not limited to newspapers and Internet sources such as blogs, instant messaging services, SpeakCorp Platform developers and other users of SpeakCorp, to supplement your profile. Where such information is used, we generally allow you to specify in your privacy settings that you do not want this to be done or to take other actions that limit the connection of this information to your profile (e.g., removing photo tag links).
Sharing Your Information with Third Parties
SpeakCorp is about sharing information with others — friends and people in your networks — while providing you with privacy settings that restrict other users from accessing your information. We allow you to choose the information you provide to friends and networks through SpeakCorp. Our network architecture and your privacy settings allow you to make informed choices about who has access to your information. We do not provide contact information to third party marketers without your permission. We share your information with third parties only in limited circumstances where we believe such sharing is 1) reasonably necessary to offer the service, 2) legally required or, 3) permitted by you. For example:
* Your news feed and mini-feed may aggregate the information you provide and make it available to your friends and network members according to your privacy settings. You may set your preferences for your news feed and mini-feed here.
* Unlike most sites on the Web, SpeakCorp limits access to site information by third party search engine "crawlers" (e.g. Google, Yahoo, MSN, Ask). SpeakCorp takes action to block access by these engines to personal information beyond your name, profile picture, and limited aggregated data about your profile (e.g. number of wall postings).
* We may provide information to service providers to help us bring you the services we offer. Specifically, we may use third parties to facilitate our business, such as to host the service at a co-location facility for servers, to send out email updates about SpeakCorp, to remove repetitive information from our user lists, to process payments for products or services, to offer an online job application process, or to provide search results or links (including sponsored links). In connection with these offerings and business operations, our service providers may have access to your personal information for use for a limited time in connection with these business activities. Where we utilize third parties for the processing of any personal information, we implement reasonable contractual and technical protections limiting the use of that information to the SpeakCorp-specified purposes.
* If you, your friends, or members of your network use any third-party applications developed using the SpeakCorp Platform ("Platform Applications"), those Platform Applications may access and share certain information about you with others in accordance with your privacy settings. You may opt-out of any sharing of certain or all information through Platform Applications on the Privacy Settings page. In addition, third party developers who have created and operate Platform Applications ("Platform Developers"), may also have access to your personal information (excluding your contact information) if you permit Platform Applications to access your data. Before allowing any Platform Developer to make any Platform Application available to you, SpeakCorp requires the Platform Developer to enter into an agreement which, among other things, requires them to respect your privacy settings and strictly limits their collection, use, and storage of your information. However, while we have undertaken contractual and technical steps to restrict possible misuse of such information by such Platform Developers, we of course cannot and do not guarantee that all Platform Developers will abide by such agreements. Please note that SpeakCorp does not screen or approve Platform Developers and cannot control how such Platform Developers use any personal information that they may obtain in connection with Platform Applications. In addition, Platform Developers may require you to sign up to their own terms of service, privacy policies or other policies, which may give them additional rights or impose additional obligations on you, so please make sure to review these terms and policies carefully before using any Platform Application. You can report any suspected misuse of information through the SpeakCorp Platform and we will investigate any such claim and take appropriate action against the Platform Developer up to and including terminating their participation in the SpeakCorp Platform and/or other formal legal action.
* We occasionally provide demonstration accounts that allow non-users a glimpse into the SpeakCorp world. Such accounts have only limited capabilities (e.g., messaging is disabled) and passwords are changed regularly to limit possible misuse.
* We may be required to disclose user information pursuant to lawful requests, such as subpoenas or court orders, or in compliance with applicable laws. We do not reveal information until we have a good faith belief that an information request by law enforcement or private litigants meets applicable legal standards. Additionally, we may share account or other information when we believe it is necessary to comply with law, to protect our interests or property, to prevent fraud or other illegal activity perpetrated through the SpeakCorp service or using the SpeakCorp name, or to prevent imminent bodily harm. This may include sharing information with other companies, lawyers, agents or government agencies.
* We let you choose to share information with marketers or electronic commerce providers through sponsored groups or other on-site offers.
* We may offer stores or provide services jointly with other companies on SpeakCorp. You can tell when another company is involved in any store or service provided on SpeakCorp, and we may share customer information with that company in connection with your use of that store or service.
* Like many other websites that interact with third party sites, we may receive some information even if you are logged out from SpeakCorp, or that pertains to non-SpeakCorp users, from those sites in conjunction with the technical operation of the system. In cases where SpeakCorp receives information on users that are not logged in, or on non-SpeakCorp users, we do not attempt to associate it with individual SpeakCorp accounts and will discard it.
* If the ownership of all or substantially all of the SpeakCorp business, or individual business units owned by SpeakCorp, Inc., were to change, your user information may be transferred to the new owner so the service can continue operations. In any such transfer of information, your user information would remain subject to the promises made in any pre-existing Privacy Policy.
When you use SpeakCorp, certain information you post or share with third parties (e.g., a friend or someone in your network), such as personal information, comments, messages, photos, videos, Marketplace listings or other information, may be shared with other users in accordance with the privacy settings you select. All such sharing of information is done at your own risk. Please keep in mind that if you disclose personal information in your profile or when posting comments, messages, photos, videos, Marketplace listings or other items, this information may become publicly available.
Links
SpeakCorp may contain links to other websites. We are of course not responsible for the privacy practices of other web sites. We encourage our users to be aware when they leave our site to read the privacy statements of each and every web site that collects personally identifiable information. This Privacy Policy applies solely to information collected by SpeakCorp.
Third Party Advertising
Advertisements that appear on SpeakCorp are sometimes delivered (or "served") directly to users by third party advertisers. They automatically receive your IP address when this happens. These third party advertisers may also download cookies to your computer, or use other technologies such as JavaScript and "web beacons" (also known as "1x1 gifs") to measure the effectiveness of their ads and to personalize advertising content. Doing this allows the advertising network to recognize your computer each time they send you an advertisement in order to measure the effectiveness of their ads and to personalize advertising content. In this way, they may compile information about where individuals using your computer or browser saw their advertisements and determine which advertisements are clicked. SpeakCorp does not have access to or control of the cookies that may be placed by the third party advertisers. Third party advertisers have no access to your contact information stored on SpeakCorp unless you choose to share it with them.
This privacy policy covers the use of cookies by SpeakCorp and does not cover the use of cookies or other tracking technologies by any of its advertisers.
Changing or Removing Information
Access and control over most personal information on SpeakCorp is readily available through the profile editing tools. SpeakCorp users may modify or delete any of their profile information at any time by logging into their account. Information will be updated immediately. Individuals who wish to deactivate their SpeakCorp account may do so on the My Account page. Removed information may persist in backup copies for a reasonable period of time but will not be generally available to members of SpeakCorp. Where you make use of the communication features of the service to share information with other individuals on SpeakCorp, however, (e.g., sending a personal message to another SpeakCorp user) you generally cannot remove such communications.
Security
SpeakCorp takes appropriate precautions to protect our users' information. Your account information is located on a secured server behind a firewall. When you enter sensitive information (such as credit card number or your password), we encrypt that information using secure socket layer technology (SSL). (To learn more about SSL, go to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secure_Sockets_Layer). Because email and instant messaging are not recognized as secure communications, we request that you not send private information to us by email or instant messaging services. If you have any questions about the security of SpeakCorp Web Site, please contact us at privacy@SpeakCorp.com
Terms of Use, Notices and Revisions
Your use of SpeakCorp, and any disputes arising from it, is subject to this Privacy Policy as well as our Terms of Use and all of its dispute resolution provisions including arbitration, limitation on damages and choice of law. We reserve the right to change our Privacy Policy and our Terms of Use at any time. Non-material changes and clarifications will take effect immediately, and material changes will take effect within 30 days of their posting on this site. If we make changes, we will post them and will indicate at the top of this page the policy's new effective date. If we make material changes to this policy, we will notify you here, by email, or through notice on our home page. We encourage you to refer to this policy on an ongoing basis so that you understand our current privacy policy. Unless stated otherwise, our current privacy policy applies to all information that we have about you and your account.
Contacting the Web Site
If you have any questions about this privacy policy, please contact us at privacy@SpeakCorp.com. You may also contact us by mail at 235 East Broadway, Suite 1060, Long Beach, CA 90802.